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Thanks, GM.
Following kmathern's suggestion to change preferred distro got rid of the dependency issue and I am now stuck with synaptic telling me things which I don't understand and asking me questions I don't know how to answer!
Yes, I did the reloading after adding the multimedia repo'.

questions, like?

"On what host does the MySQL server reside: "

most people don't have a dedicated server so mysql is often installed on the same machine as mythtv-backend - which is the localhost.

EDIT: make sure you use the actual IP address of the machine this is being installed on otherwise you'll run into issues when configuring mythtv and getting mythtv-backend and frontends to communicate with the database

Tried the answer "localhost".
Then when asked for the name of the MySQL administrator account I replied "root". Synaptic then said "Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at .........." followed by lots more that I don't understand and ending up with "Not all changes and updates succeeded. For further details of the failure, please expand the 'Details' panel below." ?? I see no such panel.

I am going to have to sleep on it now (it's 0145 here).

EDIT: just saw your edit - I will have another go tomorrow.
Gnite and thanks.

Finally got mythtv installed.
Unfortunately it does not recognise my tv card
So marking this topic solved.

Thanks for your help, guys.

what kind of card is it?

what answers did you put?

It's a Pinnacle Dual Hybrid Pro 3010iX: uses Philips chips and plugs into a PCIe socket.

Jerry, I have struggled with this so many times my brain is hurting too much to remember exactly the successful sequence. Basically I followed the wiki instructions except I used Synaptic instead of aptitude, and before installing mythtv I changed the "preferred distro" in synaptic to "stable" as suggested by kmathern.

it would appear that, according to this http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Pinnacle, your card isn't supported by linux